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''Saltburn'' contains examples of:
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The young women that surround Felix. His sister Venetia (who Oliver hooks up with) is blonde, his ex-girlfriend Annabel (who Oliver also hooks up with) is a redhead, and his new girlfriend India is brunette.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: BlondeBrunetteRedhead:
** The young women that surround Felix. His sister Venetia (who Oliver hooks up with) is blonde, his ex-girlfriend Annabel (who Oliver also hooks up with) is a redhead, and his new girlfriend India is brunette.
** The three "older" women at Saltburn. Felix's mother Elspeth is blonde, her friend Pamela is a redhead, and Lady Daphne is brunette.
** The young women that surround Felix. His sister Venetia (who Oliver hooks up with) is blonde, his ex-girlfriend Annabel (who Oliver also hooks up with) is a redhead, and his new girlfriend India is brunette.
** The three "older" women at Saltburn. Felix's mother Elspeth is blonde, her friend Pamela is a redhead, and Lady Daphne is brunette.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The young women that surround Felix. His sister Venetia (who Oliver hooks up with) is blonde, his ex-girlfriend Annabel (who Oliver also hooks up with) is a redhead, and his new girlfriend India is brunette.
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** Lady Daphne also seems to qualify, although she's only in two scenes. She [[AwfulWeddedLife openly hates her husband]], doesn't understand why Oliver thinks it's "nice" that she has children, and tells him that the purpose of school is that she doesn't have to see them or deal with them.
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* SpoiledSweet: Felix is a ''very'' RareMaleExample. He's LovedByAll at home and at Oxford, comes from extreme wealth, refers casually to the priceless art they have at Saltburn, and is genuinely always very kind to Oliver. However, he also seems oblivious to his own wealth and privilege, is possessive over Oliver, and seems interested in him mostly for the novelty of his sad backstory.
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** Oliver is somewhere between this and AmbiguouslyGay. He's madly besotted with Felix (though explicitly denies being in love with him), he gives Farleigh a handjob, and he kisses and goes down Venetia, but [[spoiler:was likely doing so just to get closer to the various Cattons in pursuit of Saltburn.]]
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** Oliver is somewhere between this and AmbiguouslyGay. He's madly besotted with Felix (though explicitly denies being in love with him), he gives Farleigh a handjob, and he kisses and goes down on Venetia, but [[spoiler:was likely doing so just to get closer to the various Cattons in pursuit of Saltburn.]]
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* IvyLeagueForEveryone: The UK-specific equivalent. Felix, Oliver, and Farleigh are all new students at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxford]], where Farleigh's mother apparently attended in the 1990s (alongside now-Oxford dean, Professor Ware).
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* IvyLeagueForEveryone: The UK-specific equivalent. Felix, Oliver, and Farleigh are all new students at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxford]], where Farleigh's mother apparently attended in the 1990s (alongside now-Oxford dean, don, Professor Ware).
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entire Catton family is dead, most of them due to Oliver's machinations, and Oliver inherits all of Saltburn. Regardless of whose side the viewer is on, Oliver is also now alone once again thanks to his own doing.]]
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** Her daughter Venetia is a SadInsideSourOutside version, openly snarking at Oliver and demeaning him in part because she can't or doesn't want to stand up to Elspeth, who views her as disappointing.
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** Her daughter Venetia is a SadInsideSourOutside SourOutsideSadInside version, openly snarking at Oliver and demeaning him in part because she can't or doesn't want to stand up to Elspeth, who views her as disappointing.
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* RichBitch: Elspeth is very much this, declaring that she "can't stand ugliness" and snarking that a friend who recently committed suicide would do "anything for attention".
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* RichBitch: RichBitch:
** Elspeth is very much this, declaring that she "can't stand ugliness" and snarking that a friend who recently committed suicide would do "anything forattention".attention".
** Her daughter Venetia is a SadInsideSourOutside version, openly snarking at Oliver and demeaning him in part because she can't or doesn't want to stand up to Elspeth, who views her as disappointing.
** Elspeth is very much this, declaring that she "can't stand ugliness" and snarking that a friend who recently committed suicide would do "anything for
** Her daughter Venetia is a SadInsideSourOutside version, openly snarking at Oliver and demeaning him in part because she can't or doesn't want to stand up to Elspeth, who views her as disappointing.
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* SystematicVillainTakedown: A loose definition of "villain": the characters that all take offence to Oliver or try to get rid of him are gradually taken out, though they are a variety of moral alignments. First, [[spoiler:Oliver frames Farleigh for stealing and gets him thrown out of Saltburn; then he poisons Felix to death after Felix finds out he lied about his backstory; then he leaves Venetia alone with a razor in deep grief, apparently knowing she'll slit her wrists; Sir James dies without any (apparent) intervention from Oliver, but he exiled Oliver from Saltburn; then Oliver suffocates Elspeth and presumably poisoned her in the first place to make her dependent on him.]]
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* SystematicVillainTakedown: A loose definition of "villain": the characters that all take offence to Oliver or try to get rid of him are gradually taken out, though they are a variety of moral alignments. First, [[spoiler:Oliver frames Farleigh for stealing and gets him thrown out of Saltburn; then he poisons Felix to death after Felix finds out he lied about his backstory; then, because he wasn't able to take Farleigh out permanently with the jewellery theft, he plants drugs in his room and blames him for Felix's death; then he leaves Venetia alone with a razor in deep grief, apparently knowing she'll slit her wrists; Sir James dies without any (apparent) intervention from Oliver, but he exiled Oliver from Saltburn; then Oliver suffocates Elspeth and presumably poisoned her in the first place to make her dependent on him.]]
* TenLittleMurderVictims: Not a straight example, but its portrayal of a deadly country house owes a lot to this subgenre. [[spoiler:Everybody but Oliver and Duncan die. Pamela dies by suicide, Oliver murders Felix and Elspeth and manipulates Venetia into committing suicide, and frames Farleigh for a part in Felix's death to get him exiled, and then Sir James dies from natural causes.]] Flashbacks at the end depict exactly how each happens.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: Not a straight example, but its portrayal of a deadly country house owes a lot to this subgenre. [[spoiler:Everybody but Oliver and Duncan die. Pamela dies by suicide, Oliver murders Felix and Elspeth and manipulates Venetia into committing suicide, and frames Farleigh for a part in Felix's death to get him exiled, and then Sir James dies from natural causes.]] Flashbacks at the end depict exactly how each happens.
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** Pamela is an aware version. Elspeth apparently believed she was a cool rock chick instead of self-pitying and dimwitted.
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** Pamela is an aware version.a version, though it's not clear if she's simply too dim to notice that they want rid of her. Elspeth apparently believed she was a cool rock chick instead of self-pitying and dimwitted.
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* OldRetainer: Duncan, the butler at Saltburn, fills this role, being loyal to the house and the Catton family.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To past stories of aristocratic social climbing, such as ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' or ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.
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* OnlyFriend: When Oliver is just another Oxford freshman, Michael is the only person he's more than casually acquainted with, although Oliver doesn't seem to particularly like him much.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To past stories of aristocratic social climbing, such as ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' or ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Explicitly, squickily averted. [[spoiler:Venetia tries to warn Oliver against performing oral sex upon her, as it's "the wrong time of the month", but Oliver goes ahead anyway - even rubbing some of her period blood on her face.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:More like a "sinister anti-hero", but nevertheless, Oliver gets away with his role in destroying the entire Catton family and taking their estate for his own.]]
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* MeaningfulName: Oliver Quick. "Oliver" suggests Literature/OliverTwist, one of the most famous poor boys in literary history, while "Quick" suggests [[GuileHero cleverness]].
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* StiffUpperLip: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. The Cattons are a fairly repressed bunch, very rarely allowing themselves to feel things deeply. [[spoiler:After Felix is found dead, they try to muddle on through the day without acknowledging the gravity of the situation. The fact that they don't do a very good job of it at all only highlights the futility of such an attitude.]]
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* DancePartyEnding: A one-person example. [[spoiler:Oliver, having killed off the Cattons and inherited Saltburn, joyously dances through the mansion stark naked to "Murder on the Dance Floor" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.]]
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* BathSuicide: [[spoiler:Venetia slashes her wrists in the bathtub (after Oliver provides her with razor blades) not long after Felix dies.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Pamela kills herself offscreen not long after being cast out of Saltburn. Venetia slashes her wrists (with razors thoughtfully provided by Oliver) after her brother's death. And while Sir James' cause of death is left ambiguous, Elspeth remarks that she doesn't know "what took him so long" after Felix's death.]]
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* SelfPoisoningGambit: [[spoiler:Oliver poisons his own bottle and exchanges it with Felix's after confronting him in the maze, making himself vomit to keep from killing himself.]]
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* CondescendingCompassion: Most of the kindness the Cattons bestow upon their favored targets is laced with this, as Oliver and Pamela can attest.
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* ILoveTheDead: Downplayed. [[spoiler:While Oliver doesn't do anything with Felix's dead body, he ''does'' hump his freshly-laid grave. Later, he grinds himself against Elspeth during (and shortly after) her death.]]
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: The UK-specific equivalent. Felix, Oliver, and Farleigh are all new students at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxford]], where Farleigh's mother apparently attended in the 1990s (alongside now-Oxforddon, dean, Professor Ware).
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: The UK-specific equivalent. Felix, Oliver, and Farleigh are all new students at [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxford]], where Farleigh's mother apparently attended in the 1990s (alongside now-Oxford
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* RichBitch: Elspeth is very much this, declaring that she "can't stand ugliness" and snarking that a friend who recently committed suicide would do "anything for attention".
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Oliver desperately tells Felix that he loves him (multiple times) when [[spoiler:Felix exiles him from Saltburn.]]
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave:
** Pamela is an aware version. Elspeth apparently believed she was a cool rock chick instead of self-pitying and dimwitted.
** Oliver becomes this after [[spoiler:Felix and Venetia's deaths]], though only Sir James seems aware of it. [[spoiler:He senses Oliver's bad influence on Elspeth and pays him to leave and never bother Elspeth again. It works for a while, until he dies fourteen years later in 2020.]]
** Pamela is an aware version. Elspeth apparently believed she was a cool rock chick instead of self-pitying and dimwitted.
** Oliver becomes this after [[spoiler:Felix and Venetia's deaths]], though only Sir James seems aware of it. [[spoiler:He senses Oliver's bad influence on Elspeth and pays him to leave and never bother Elspeth again. It works for a while, until he dies fourteen years later in 2020.]]
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** Oliver is somewhere between this and AmbiguouslyGay. He's madly besotted with Felix (though explicitly denies being in love with him), he gives Farleigh a handjob, and he kisses and fellates Venetia, but [[spoiler:was likely doing so just to get closer to the various Cattons.]]
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** Oliver is somewhere between this and AmbiguouslyGay. He's madly besotted with Felix (though explicitly denies being in love with him), he gives Farleigh a handjob, and he kisses and fellates goes down Venetia, but [[spoiler:was likely doing so just to get closer to the various Cattons.Cattons in pursuit of Saltburn.]]
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* HedgeMaze: The Saltburn estate has a huge, labyrinthine maze, with a [[MobileMaze a smaller version]] in the house itself. [[spoiler:That's where Felix dies.]]
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* HedgeMaze: The Saltburn estate has a huge, labyrinthine maze, with a [[MobileMaze a smaller version]] in the house itself. [[spoiler:That's where Felix dies.]]
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* SystematicVillainTakedown: A loose definition of "villain": the characters that all take offence to Oliver or try to get rid of him are gradually taken out, though they are a variety of moral alignments. First, [[spoiler:Oliver frames Farleigh for stealing and gets him thrown out of Saltburn; then he poisons Felix to death after Felix finds out he lied about his backstory; then he leaves Venetia along with a razor in deep grief, apparently knowing she'll slit her wrists; Sir James dies without any (apparent) intervention from Oliver, but he exiled Oliver from Saltburn; then Oliver suffocates Elspeth and presumably poisoned her to make her dependent on him.]]
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* SystematicVillainTakedown: A loose definition of "villain": the characters that all take offence to Oliver or try to get rid of him are gradually taken out, though they are a variety of moral alignments. First, [[spoiler:Oliver frames Farleigh for stealing and gets him thrown out of Saltburn; then he poisons Felix to death after Felix finds out he lied about his backstory; then he leaves Venetia along alone with a razor in deep grief, apparently knowing she'll slit her wrists; Sir James dies without any (apparent) intervention from Oliver, but he exiled Oliver from Saltburn; then Oliver suffocates Elspeth and presumably poisoned her in the first place to make her dependent on him.]]
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* WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: Farleigh can immediately tell that [[PennyAmongDiamonds Oliver]]'s tux is a rental, and asks him about it.
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* WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: Farleigh can immediately tell that [[PennyAmongDiamonds Oliver]]'s tux is a rental, and asks subtly mocks him about it.
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** Oliver is somewhere between this and AmbiguouslyGay. He's madly besotted with Felix, though explicitly denies being in love with him; he gives Farleigh a handjob, and kisses Venetia, but [[spoiler:was likely doing so just to get at Saltburn.]]
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** Oliver is somewhere between this and AmbiguouslyGay. He's madly besotted with Felix, though Felix (though explicitly denies being in love with him; him), he gives Farleigh a handjob, and he kisses and fellates Venetia, but [[spoiler:was likely doing so just to get at Saltburn.closer to the various Cattons.]]
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* ThePlace: The trailer shows that the titular Saltburn is the Cattons' family estate.
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* ThePlace: The trailer shows that the titular Saltburn film is primarily set at Saltburn, the Cattons' sprawling family estate.
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* BigFancyHouse: Saltburn is this, as is evident from the trailer: an enormous English estate.
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* BigFancyHouse: Saltburn is this, as is evident from the trailer: this: an enormous English estate.estate with several bedrooms, sitting rooms, and libraries, an adjacent lake, and a massive hedge maze.
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* PennyAmongDiamonds: Oliver is the orphaned child of addicts among TheBeautifulElite of the English aristocracy. [[spoiler:He's faking it. He may still qualify as the only middle-class person in the upper classes, but he isn't poor.]]
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* CastFullOfRichPeople: Everyone, excluding presumably Duncan (the butler) and Oliver himself, is from a wealthy, aristocratic background. [[spoiler:Even Oliver, while not ''rich'', is comfortably middle-class and is lying about the poverty in which he grew up.]]
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* PrinceAndPauper: An enforced example that doesn't include overt resemblance. Oliver is a pauper, from an extremely lower-class and abusive background, while the wealthy, popular aristocrat Felix is (almost literally) a prince. [[spoiler:Oliver reveals himself to have been lying about his background to ingratiate himself with Felix, though he is still from a poorer background. When Felix finds out, he kills him and then goes to extreme lengths to try and stay at Saltburn, eventually essentially replacing him as the heir.]]
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Most of the story is set in the year 2006-2007. This is even true after a TimeSkip: [[spoiler:Sir James explicitly dies in 2020, and it's suggested that it's no later than 2021 at the latest at the finale.]]
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Most of the story is set in the year 2006-2007. This is even true after a TimeSkip: [[spoiler:Sir James explicitly dies in 2020, and it's suggested that it's no later than 2021 at the latest at the finale.]] The film premiered in the fall of 2023.
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* RagsToRiches: Downplayed. [[spoiler:This ''would'' be a completely straight example, as Oliver ends up inheriting Saltburn (and presumably whatever is left of Elspeth's fortune) after killing her. However, while Oliver is nowhere near as wealthy as the Cattons, his sob story of drugs and addicted parents in horrific poverty is a total fabrication designed to appeal to Felix and the family, and his parents appear lower middle class at the very least.]]
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* TokenBlackFriend:
** Farleigh is the only black member of the family. He is also ButNotTooBlack - as the mixed-race son of Sir James's sister and an unknown father.
** Lady Daphne is also the only black member of the aristocracy that we see (excluding Farleigh, who is at best an awkward example).
** Farleigh is the only black member of the family. He is also ButNotTooBlack - as the mixed-race son of Sir James's sister and an unknown father.
** Lady Daphne is also the only black member of the aristocracy that we see (excluding Farleigh, who is at best an awkward example).
